In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
BERTOLT BRECHTHungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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